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The Hit Parade Heroes – Celebrating the Stars and the Music of the 1950s and 1960s Following the UK’s Skiffle music boom of 1956 kids suddenly became known as ‘teenagers’ and for the first time ever they had a music that they could call their own.
Many who cut their teeth in skiffle groups now began exchanging their washboards for drum kits, their tea-chest bass for an proper electric bass and their old banjos for real guitars as their own musical tastes widened to the sounds across the Atlantic Ocean.
It was in 1958 that Buddy Holly brought the first Fender Stratocaster guitar into the UK and from then on the door was wide open for the magnificent and energetic sounds of America to shake up old blighty forever.
A new breed of music hero now dominated the British Hit Parade – with home grown talent such as Tommy Steele, Joe Brown, Lonnie Donegan, Adam Faith and Marty Wild and many other American stars such as Johnny Cash, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, The Everly Brothers and more.
Enjoy 2 hours of musical nostalgia with Warren James as he remembers his Hit Parade Heroes.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Grove Road, Ansty, CV7 9JD Coventry, United Kingdom, Ansty Club, Grove Road, Coventry, CV7 9JD, United Kingdom,Ansty, Warwickshire
